Woolf.CI: Compute Woolf confidence interval for the odds ratio

Description Usage Arguments Author(s) References Examples

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Description

Compute Woolf confidence interval for the odds ratio of two independent binomial proportions.

Usage

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Woolf.CI(x1, n1, x2, n2, conf = 0.95)

Arguments

x1

number of events in group 1.

n1

number of trials in group 1.

x2

number of events in group 2.

n2

number of trials in group 2.

conf

confidence level.

Author(s)

Libo Sun

References

Woolf, B. (1955). On estimating the relation between blood group and disease. Annals of human genetics, 19(4):251-253.

Examples

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# x1=2, n1=14, x2=1, n2=11
# 95% confidence interval for the odds ratio 

Woolf.CI(2, 14, 1, 11)

Example output

[1]  0.1310604 21.1946394

ORCI documentation built on May 2, 2019, 10:58 a.m.